This is a retarded advice. Author clearly never tried to develop any serious web development.

> the build time is over 30 seconds!

that's silly. 30 seconds building time is nothing compare to the accumulated time you wait for micro changes to your frontend.

for typical web development using react/vue/svelte you have hot code reloading, which can reload the current website < 1 seconds after you hit [Save] on your favorite editor.

for htmx to update, you have to wait for your whole server to reload (which can be way slower even you use interpreted languages like ruby or python, due to complexity of the framework you use).

not to mention it does not keep any state of the current website, make debugging way more troublesome compare to a js mature framework.

only people who never have to improve their website incrementally think htmx is a viable option. or insane people.

obviously, for some small websites with minimal interactions or no need to change the content very often, then htmx can be good, but for that case, vanilla js also works, and they do not need 14kb of excess baggage.